Recipe - Braised Turkey Drumsticks

2 pound Pork
2 (up to)
3 tablespoon Oil
1 One half cup Water
3 sl Fresh ginger root
Three fourths cup Soy sauce
1 tablespoon Sugar
4 tablespoon Sherry
1 (up to)
2 pound Spinach

1. Cut pork in 1One half inch cubes. Heat oil in a heavy pan and brown pork
quickly.

2. Bring water to a boil in another pan. Slice and crush ginger root.
Add to pork along with soy sauce. Simmer, covered, 1 hour. Skim off and
reserve a ladleful of fat.

3. Add sugar and sherry to pan and simmer, covered, 30 minutes more.

4. Wash spinach and remove tough stems. Heat reserved fat. Add spinach
and stirfry until softened but still fresh and green.

5. Line a serving dish with spinach, top with pork cubes, pour gravy
over, and serve.

VARIATIONS: For the spinach, substitute Chinese lettuce or Chinese
cabbage, cut in 2inch sections.

Leave the pork whole. Brown and pour off excess fat. Add to pan 1 cup
water, 1One half tablespoons brown sugar and 4 tablespoons soy sauce. Heat,
then simmer, covered, until pork is tender (about 1One half hours). Slice and
serve over stirfried spinach.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.